Israeli planes strike Gaza after rocket attacks

Israeli warplanes struck multiple militant targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday in response to Palestinian rocket fire, but nobody was injured according to Palestinian security sources.

They said that the raids hit three training bases of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Gaza City and a fourth in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

The rocket fire was claimed by a group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem which recently emerged in the Gaza Strip.

It said the attack was to avenge the death of a radical Islamist in Gaza this week.

An Israeli military statement confirmed the air strikes but did not identify the targets.

“Yesterday, June 3, 2015, two rockets were launched at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip,” it said, adding that they fell on open ground near the southern city of Ashkelon and the town of Netivot. “No injuries were reported.”

“In response to this attack, the Israel Defence Forces struck three terror infrastructures in the Gaza Strip,” it said.